Five new ocellus-bearing species of the cusk-eel genus Neobythites (Ophidiidae, Ophidiiformes) from the West Pacific, with establishment of three new species groups Author Uiblein, Franz Institute of Marine Research, P. O. Box 1870 Nordnes, N- 5817 Bergen, Norway. Corresponding author; & National Research Foundation - South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda / Grahamstown, South Africa & Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Hanoi, Vietnam Author Nielsen, Jørgen G. Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark text Zootaxa 2023 2023-08-22 5336 2 179 205 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5336.2.2 journal article 264178 10.11646/zootaxa.5336.2.2 9729c032-d657-4db9-b528-27c0a2734df6 1175-5326 8272417 7BD6357E-BB67-44E9-B028-4CA7A2769660

TABLE 1. Ocellus-bearing Neobythites species, with number and category of ocelli, preopercular spine number, and pelvic-fin length information.

Species group	Neobythites species	Ocellus nr.; category	Preopercular spine(s)	Pelvic fin *
a = anterior ocellus; c = central ocellus; p1, p2, p3 = first, second, third posterior ocellus; * long/short: clearly extending/not extending beyond anus; ** formerly included in the steatiticus group (see Uiblein & Nielsen 2018).
	N. superocellatus n. sp.	1; c	2	short
australiensis	N. australiensis Nielsen N. nigriventris Nielsen	1; c 1; c	2 2	short short
	N. unimaculatus Smith & Radcliffe	1; c	2	short
	N. japonicus n. sp.	2; a, c	2	short
kenyaensis	N. kenyaensis Nielsen	2; a, c	0	short
	N. ocellatus Günther	2; a, c	0–1 (reduced)	short
	N. jonathan n. sp.	1; c	2	long
longiventralis	N. zora n. sp.	2; c, p1	2	long
	N. longiventralis Nielsen	2; a, c	2	long
	N. longipes Smith & Radcliffe **	1; c	2	long
	N. pako n. sp.	1; c	1	short
	N. gloriae Uiblein & Nielsen	1; c	0	short
	N. lombokensis Uiblein & Nielsen	1; c	0	short
steatiticus	N. malayanus Weber	1; c	0	short
	N. malhaensis Nielsen	1; c	1 (reduced)	short
	N. meteori Nielsen	1; c	1 (reduced)	short
	N. monocellatus Nielsen	1; c	0–1 (reduced)	short
	N. steatiticus Alcock	1; c	0–1 (reduced)	short
	N. stefanovi Nielsen & Uiblein	1; c	0	short
	N. bimaculatus Nielsen	2; c, p1	2	short
	N. crosnieri Nielsen	2; p1, p2	2	short
	N. fasciatus Smith & Radcliffe	4; c, p1, p2, p3	2	short
	N. fijiensis Nielsen	3; c, p1, p2	2	short
ungrouped	N. gilli Goode & Bean	2; c, p1	0–1 (reduced)	short
	N. macrocelli Nielsen	2; c, p1	2	short
	N. macrops Günther	2 (3, 4); c, p1 (p2, p3)	2	short
	N. marianaensis Nielsen	2; c, p1	2	short
	N. multiocellatus Nielsen, Uiblein & Mincarone	2; c, p1	0–1 (reduced)	short
	N. stigmosus Machida	3; c, p1, p2	2	short